skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I admit I didn't click this link at first given the seeming vapidness of the claim, and I will correct myself here that the passage cited is from the cited would-be paper rather than the linked article.

I say "would-be" because that's what the article has to say about the would-be paper:

>In the new theoretical paper, uploaded to the pre-print database arXiv in December 2023 but not yet peer-reviewed, Sierra Solter-Hunt, a doctoral candidate at the University of Iceland, proposed that this atmospheric spacecraft dust may compromise the magnetosphere — the part of Earth's magnetic field that extends into space and protects the atmosphere from solar radiation.

So it's not a paper yet and namely hasn't been reviewed by peers, nor is the author a doctor (as in PhD) proper yet. This isn't something layman can refer to for information, not yet anyway.

Given that, I stand by my initial claim that this is fearmongering and FUD. Nothing in there has been confirmed as worthy of our time to discuss.
This isn't spillover. The virus mutated so it can transmit between cows, and now dairy workers are able to catch that. With the risk being that it mutates again into a human to human form.

Spillover is you have sporadic cases caught *from birds* but transmission remains between birds.
I am asking myself the same question.
This page is unreadable... 80% ads intermixed with a little bit of content.
that's because I prefer to have it all in one board. I use colored tags to mark things as "done" and , eventually, archive them later during a cleanup
This article highlights a problem at the science-mass media boundary: it ends with refutals from other scientists studying space debris, and a short reply to the refutals.

Having people in the field argue against a paper is expected, and the whole point of peer reviewing. That's how they (hopefully) converge on a model everyone agrees on. However, if you're not actively researching space debris, the better stance in the matter would be "oh, shit, we should probably tread carefully until we know more."

I think the fundamental problem is that the ending makes it polarized, instead of curious, and makes no attempt to explain what the precautionary path would be. I'm sure even the refuters would like to know if this is true or not.

For me, not in the field, this writing style feels dismissive. I'm no wiser if this is a problem or not, but I guess it doesn't matter, because it's three refuters against two believers. Were they cherry-picked to have three refuters by some journalistic formula, or are there actually more opponents than proponents?

It's not helped by the fact that it is (only) a proponent (Lawler) who says "we need more studies," not an opponent.

(If I knew how to write, I would be writing science news, not complaining about it.)
E-commerce logistics partner Renda raises $1.9M to expand across Nigeria
Sw engineers have been so pissed off by Windows 11 that the company I work for now allows Ubuntu installation on corporate notebooks.
Rationality and imperfect information are different things.

Neither of which fit your example which is search cost. Not everyone knows a lot of things, it is impossible to know everything. Therefore tradeoffs are made. Which is rational.
In terms of energy, certainly. Generate electricity with non-carbon sources, then use electricity. The main difficulty would be aviation, because current batteries are too heavy, but there you could use biofuels until someone comes up with something better.

You're left with things like concrete that emit CO2 from something other than burning fossil fuels. But none of those things are strictly required. There are alternatives to them with various trade offs. Some that are essentially a drop-in replacement, basically different kinds of cement that don't emit CO2, others that operate differently but get you the same result, like using entirely different building materials. The main reason these aren't already used is cost, but that doesn't mean you can't pay the cost, it just means nobody is going to do it voluntarily. It also doesn't mean that no one could come up with some new alternative with a lower cost going forward -- that sort of thing happens all the time.
You do know the odds of a significant labour victory at the next election are high? "Those complaining" are probably now in the ascendency. They just won most regional council elections.

Renationalisation is not impossible. Which of course implies taxation to fund investment for capital works.
It's very cool and awesome how any criticism of capitalism results in an anti communist comment. As if there are only two possible economic systems and dislike of planned obsolescence + inequality means you want to die in a gulag.
You still can't move taskbar on the side, something you could do for decades.
It’s already there in some respects.

This week on the Odd Lots podcast [0] there was an excellent interview with the founder of Duolingo who talks about how they use AI to personalize the learning for each user.

But even before that, we had adaptive tests. Not AI, but on the path to adaptive learning systems.

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-02/luis-von-...
Exactly this. It's not uncommon to ask a coworker how to do something, get a response, and then send them a follow-up CL adding that information to a playbook or doc somewhere so others can reference it.

Heck, sometimes I responded to questions with a CL adding that info to docs.

The internal search engine helps drive a lot of this, too - if you want to know how to do something, docs (via search) are like the #1 choice. So, everyone's pretty incentivized to make it a good resource.
No, I think he's arguing for a free-er market. He's saying that landlords should have more information, that they should be told how much strife they are imposing on their community by pushing their parasitic behaviour to its limit.
I think the number of people who even read the manifesto is tiny. And within that group, those who realised privatisation was going to result in something other than individually (and temporarily) saving some money, even smaller. A minority you might say...

And given our low turnouts and small proportion of the country that voted for that party, saying it's what Britain wants is disingenuous.
So they point out it's a theoretical paper that hasn't been peer-reviewed yet, but it's FUD?

Interesting

I assume you apply this standard to every arXiv paper posted here or referenced by a science publication?
Cars tend to move around
Sorry but I think the parent commenter is joking about the video game Minecraft.
Exactly what I was thinking. They’re one of the two “puzzling” countries for economists, Argentina being the other.
Extremely incorrect. Nationalisation of water polls as a remarkably popular policy with a clear public majority in favour, even among exclusively Tory voters. As does rail.

The lack of movement on the issue is not due to lack of public will, but the lack of desire from a dying government to deliver effective policy.
Most people don't realize that Android was originally intended to be a BlackberryOS clone, but was pivoted to compete with iOS at the last minute instead. Once you understand that, a lot of the design decisions start making a lot more sense.
The linked article seems to contradict what you are saying.

> In effect, the business judgment rule creates a strong presumption in favor of the board of directors of a corporation, freeing its members from possible liability for decisions that result in harm to the corporation.

It's not clear to me how conducting "ethical capitalism" could open you up to criminal liability.
Anthropic BsidesSF Challenge
> Price fixing is an agreement (written, verbal, or inferred from conduct) among competitors to raise, lower, maintain, or stabilize prices or price levels. Generally, the antitrust laws require that each company establish prices and other competitive terms on its own, without agreeing with a competitor.

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
I liked Google pay, until I found myself randomly in some experiment group and it just didn't work one day. I discovered this in the shop, and of course I wasn't carrying physical cards because I'd been duped into thinking the digital type would never fail.

I started carrying my physical cards after that, and started using them more for quick transactions, as I'd rather risk dropping a piece of plastic rather than my phone.

I've entirely switched back to physical cards now, after exclusively using digital wallets for years.

One thing that helped is learning how much data is stored by the wallet providers. I fear data being used against me, in the future, in ways I cannot imagine today.

So imagine my surprise when a Stripe payment, for an online service to provide hormones for transitioning, which is legal where I live... Triggers Stripe to send an email phrased like it was necessary for order confirmation, and then to create a Link account presumably with the transaction details... Opt-in via dark patterns.

One thing not covered is the safety of wallets and the metadata around transactions, safety for individuals from the politics of the United States.
Whatever you're doing isn't working on Firefox.

Edit: Just read the disclaimer, whoops!
A 5 pound cat jumping in the middle of highway can still cause a pileup despite lacking the energy to cause any damage by itself. People don't want to run over cats and will swerve/break to evade it, losing control and hitting other cars. People don't want to run over other people (on bicycles or not) even more than they don't want to run over cats.
British innit!
I wonder how the Kessler syndrome would affect Trident. No GPS, and no more peeking at the stars. Hopefully inertial guidance is better now/soon.
That's amazing, I might get to see an aurora after all!
It seems to be a tool that generates instructions for building hash functions, then evaluates the hash functions to see how good they are. The goal metric has been chosen to be that as many output bits as possible should change as randomly as possible with every changed input bit.

It outputs C code for the best hash function it generated.

So it's useful if you want a hash function, and don't think any of the existing ones are good enough. Or if you're researching hash functions, and want new ideas for structures.

Cool? Well, generating code is cool. Doing it randomly is a first step towards genetic programming, which would be even cooler. ... and making computers burn CPU cycles computing (mostly unused) hashes seems to be something we humans want to do since around 15 years ago.
Plantmaps.com Specializing in Hardiness Zone Maps
I have to admit that I am not good at distinguishing between the English words consciousness and awareness. I think animals are missing what we refer to when we say “I”. We embed the reality around us in a symbolic space. The necessary substrate for this is our conceptual language. The “I” is a virtual projection of this space into ourselves. If you pay close attention to young children, you will notice that they do not yet have this interior space: no self-image, no preconceived idea of who they are and what characterizes them. As they acquire language, they gradually turn into little egotistical assholes like the rest of us.

Animals and toddlers are not Decartesian automatons. They have perception and feel pain, can suffer and deserve empathy. But they are not speaking subjects and therefore not subjects at all. A deaf-mute person who can communicate conceptually is a speaking subject. A person who, under any particular circumstances, never comes to form concepts of the world, i.e. to open up the symbolic space, is not a subject.

It was probably premature of me to equate this with consciousness. It always triggers me a bit when people assume that animals are just like us, only with fur and on four legs or something like that.
The one who tells people that chess is boring, too simple and solved?
You're welcome. The whole of Janáček's music is influenced by the Czech language and folk songs. Warning that Jenufa can get a bit intense though! Thank you for mentioning the Moravian Folk Songs - added to my playlist now.
Oracle still maintains JavaFX along with Gluon and others. New features and bug fixes are delivered on each release.

Java and JavaFX are being ported to iOS and Android as Project Mobile under the official OpenJDK umbrella.

JavaFX fresh builds are also seen on jdk.java.net now.
Russell's proposed mid-point is 20 (or maybe 24?) hours of work in a week. That seems sensible to me!
It’s an exemplar of “whistling past the grave yard” dark humour.
Giving Your KiCAD PCB Repository Pretty Pictures
Repositories: https://github.com/linalinn/kicad-render, https://gitlab.com/linalinn/kicad-render
"They didn't ask employees to destroy evidence but to avoid retaining evidence in the first place."

Once a company knows its going to be sued it has a legal obligation under federal rules to preserve evidence. Google deliberately ignored that requirement.

Nice try.
Like with the Internet being "decentralized", the lower-level parts may be vendor-agnostic, but they're not the parts that matter. Being able to build devices talking over cellular protocols does little for me if I'm not able to actually use them with a cellular network.
to me the added value was that I clicked a link to, OK, Xitter, but now there's a user-contributed disclaimer attached to the original post that puts the claim into a rather sobering context. I guess it's good to have some antidote to "I'm confident that within a year or two" claims.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40262772
Which is borne out of electoral choice. It hasn’t been the will of god that the Tories have been running the show unopposed for over a decade - it has been the will of the public.

Renationalisation of water may be popular now, but when everyone was promised cheaper water bills in the 80’s, it was an absolute tub-thumper for thatcher - same for rail - people seem to forget how much British rail was a national symbol of hatred, and the fervor with which privatisation was embraced.

No, this is public will, and governments that realise that by doing whatever idiotic thing the public is demanding today to retain and grow power prosper - at least for long enough for the cabinet to all line up a very comfortable retirement.

By the time the consequences come along, enough time has passed that it can be blamed on literally anything but any of the people responsible, from politicians who implemented it to voters who voted for it.

There seems to be confusion as to where the sewage issue has originated - while it may have manifested relatively suddenly, the circumstances have been building through policy and voter apathy for the last 35 years.
Xor-shift counteracts the two weaknesses of a multiply: the high bits have nothing above them to influence, and the low bits have nothing below them to be influenced by.
Hello Diego,

Thank you for your question. I'd say there are many differences between FasterNode and Gravity. In therms of stack however they are pretty similar (Nodejs, express, mysql ...), with Gravity being more bloated and offering more functionalities out of the box which might be a good thing or not depending on what you are looking for in a boilerplate, FasterNode focuses more on simplicity and ease of use, keeping the codebase as minimal and bloat free as possible.

Another key differentiator is that Gravity uses React, but FasterNode does not.

There is also a huge difference in price: FasterNode only costs $99, Gravity on the other hand costs between $595 and $2995.
"Is anyone seriously thinking a lone AM transmitter 2000 miles away is going to help?"

It's not for me to explain why in detail here but AM radio communications is the best value for money of any communications system outside of telegraphy (wired or wireless). It's cheap, simple, easy to construct, and it's scalable to any size (and transmission distance) that's needed.

AM radio is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th Century and it's far from outdated.

Come the Bomb and or next war and if you have any communications at all then it will almost certainly be AM Radio.

AM Radio can be local or long distance and cover the world depending on frequency. Years ago during a sunspot maxima, I watched a friend of mine located in NSW Australia talk to someone in California on 27MHz AM using only three watts of power (from a handheld CB radio) and using only a whip antenna.

I defy you or anyone to come up with a simper technology that can do that. If you want to cover say the continental US with radio during, say, a national emergency when nothing else works then it'll be AM radio that comes to the rescue. This simply is why AM radios ought to be made mandatory in every vehicle.

This is not even an argument, it's a no-brainer.
The philosophic burden of proof lies upon those who make exaggerated claims, not on those who reject them.
Yes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40262772
I'm sorry but this anecdote sets off my BS detector very hard.
They'll always put sugar or fructose in it, so I'll stick to regular food.
Now take a populus that believes it when a Twitter ad promises them free electricity from some China made plug in adapter.
I will keep saying it!

Isn't it about time those lovely cow farmers stopped feeding ground chickens to cows.

Cheep-cheep cow feed. Cheeper than your average field of grass.

Cows are vegans.

You dont see any lined up outside the local burger take away, ber-gerkins or mac-kidees.

I bet they roll out a human vaccine before the poor cows get one.

Cows look funny in masks.
Presumably it would be better if it was a phone call? Does a legal hold require recording all calls?

> > Which is....a.....theory!

I guess their theory is these ephemeral chats are like phone calls, as opposed to written communication.
> It all started when I was browsing through some film developing chemicals at one of my preferred photo shops (Fotoimpex).

This must be a pretty old article, as Fotoimpex have renovated and frustratingly removed almost their entire storefront - you can't really browse their merchandise anymore. I've found I have to order through their website despite the store being 30 mins away.
Good. It’ll teach the Yankees to mind their own business home. Keep doing that and may find someone else’s boots on your ground.
One could revel in the daily grind, I suppose. But mostly I’m just following the premise of this thread, which may not be entirely true, that modern humans are slaves to contrived parameters of success that don’t align with fun. By way of the bowerbird example, I’m suggesting such contrived and superficial fitness measures are present in the broader animal kingdom as well
Well they’ve certainly changed their mind in recent months.
Frankly, the evidence is not there that these wildfires are being caused by climate change vs cyclical droughts and mismanagement.
This is cool.

Presumably, your server stores a registry of Device IDs and IPs to route messages? What about replacing this with some sort of partitioned DHT to make it decentralized?

Also, the messages flow through your servers? Would it be possible to set up WebSocket connections between the users instead, and how would that compare from a security model perspective?

I don't really know much about any of this, so I'm just asking out of curiosity.
As if taking down Boeing is more important than your own life. Who would have such logic?
That’s because average residential construction has some tolerance for error (and is therefore poor quality imo).

Sure - perhaps not plumb to within +/- 0.001 radians, but there’s still an expectation that the wall needs to be vertical within some error tolerance band (even if not specified). Error correction happens real-time - the cabinet guy compensates for the wall error, and so on.

That’s also why I find residential construction so shoddy (the US at least) - electrical junction boxes are always a little off-angle, cover plates aren’t flush, etc.
Cities in Mexico have people selling different types of breakfast foods from stalls, trailers peddled around behind bikes, even garages that open up and sell food in the morning.

China has so many breakfast options (street vendors selling various fried dishes, and congee stalls, are two of my favorites) to the extent that Chinese who visit America are surprised by how absolute shit the choices are in the US for breakfast.

In Seattle, my choices if I don't want to sit down, are boring breakfast sandwiches or a sugar filled muffin.

Oddly enough I didn't find much in the way of breakfast foods in Tokyo, it seems they don't have a big breakfast street food culture.
Isn’t that rather some kind of tragedy of the commons thing? I mean the system isn’t rigged because of those who care. But because of everyone else who doesn’t.
@dang can we please update this title to actually reflect the source title: "Controversial paper claims satellite 'megaconstellations' like SpaceX's could weaken Earth's magnetic field and cause 'atmospheric stripping.' Should we be worried?"

Generally, no this isnt possible. The planet's magnetic field is generated naturally by the movement of so much hot iron and other elements it eclipses the total of most of the other freely available metals in the solar system.

The Earth isn't the biggest planet, but we have the biggest single conglomeration of metals outside of the gas giants. Combine Luna, Mars, and all of the known asteroids and it only almost comes to a similar mass.

A few dozen tons of launched material isn't going to have any noticeable impact on our magnetic field.
You can see how much projects and developers make on librapay. It's up to a few hundreds a week. This is definitely not FU money, but maybe enough to keep them motivated or pay their computer expenses.
"unnecessary and unhealthy crap ... Like $150 running shoes"

What exactly is unhealthy or unnecessary about running shoes?
They won’t have a capital advantage when all the homes they just bought up flood and now they’re out tons of money because they mispriced the insurance risk and self-insured.
Ah yeah. That's a little more interesting, but it still leaves me hopelessly underwhelmed. What should be an evocative image is totally banal.
That are the top hit on Google for a common beginner query and contain multiple vulnerabilities caused by a flaw unique to the language?

And we aren’t talking about an article, we’re talking about a tutorial. There’s a very big difference between the two, why are you switching? Tutorials are obviously vastly more important to beginners.

Let me remind you of the context:

> > Mixing server side and front end code is bad news. I think following many PHP-MySql tutorials will result in SQL injection vulnerabilities. Not good.

> i think you'd have to go back at least a decade to find tutorials that bad

This is something that is harming people learning PHP today, not the distant past.
A commitment to amend and move forward
Number 2 user at Stack Overflow (by reputation) admits massive-scale GPT fraud and apologizes.
Wiretapping google executives is two orders of legal magnitude more difficult than sending the company a discovery order.
Yeah!

Apply some AI!

Actual Intelligence!

go to the library and read some books.

get a masters degree by reading some books.

In fact just read books.

The lost art of reading books.
This page [1] suggests it's the IIc though.

[1] https://www.apple2history.org/history/ah08/
That's consistent with the article, which says that

(a) a large part of PayPal's margin comes from convincing individual consumers, as opposed to businesses, to keep money at PayPal

and (b) that while it's tempting to assume the benefit from this is to keep the interest rate spread, the bigger deal is getting to keep transaction fees when a user next sends that money via PayPal but one side of the transaction is open to paying credit card interchange fees for it.